Hello everyone!
I hope you're all having a great end to the first working week of 2016, because I know I am, despite any setbacks I might have had last month.
I know you could very well be sick of hearing me harp on about that little crush of mine, which hasn't gone away, by the way. You've just got to understand that it's been that bad at times this week that I've pretty much kept myself in a darkened room and just zoned out to everything, good or bad.
But anyways, that's for another life update coming soon!
Onto today's devotional...
The Power Behind a Voice
Have you ever stopped to notice just what power can lie behind someone's voice when they speak. Think about it for a moment.
When someone shouts at you...
When someone calls your name...
When someone whispers into your ear...
Each has the same response; it gets your attention, doesn't it?
That's what I have been tapping into since, well, since I got so fed up with a certain "I don't like you that way", that has drawn my attention away from where it should be for too damn long.
But again, that's for another life update!
The building blocks of the universe, or the very essence of what everything is made up of, in my opinion, is subject to the will of God so when builders build, welders weld, counsellors counsel and people pray, each time it is up to God to give up the final say on whether buildings stand, machinery is fixed, advice is taken well and prayers answered appropriately.
In the coming weeks on "60 Seconds..." I'm going to be looking at the account of creation and taking a further stab at the idea that a simple word from God can be all it takes for a situation to turn around.
I know that I for one will be believing for my own situations to turn around.
Without my work placement I know I'd be lost and, dare I admit this, I might not even be here today!
It's a bold statement to admit that, but the simple fact of the matter is, as incredibly disappointed as I am to hear those words I think I drove her to say so soon, God can change all that with one simple word from His mouth.
If it's His will that things change around, then they will and there is nothing that anyone can do about it.
I'm believing they will change around, I won't even lie because to be so afraid of saying the wrong thing that you're actually avoiding someone is not a healthy way to live your life.
It's just that it has been essential for now, to force some breathing space into the situation. I'm not going to lie, it doesn't feel like I've got breathing space, it feels, if I'm honest, like a black cloud is trying to choke me.
Just like when I was battling my way through depression.
I Want to Run Away, I Want to Fly... Away!
But I'm still here, I'm not giving up on anything, even if I do have a desire, like I admitted last time, that I do have a desire to run away right now.
I'll have to consider whether that is the right thing to do at the moment because I have a friend down south whom I know needs me right now so there is that as an option and then of course there is my good friend Matthew who has kindly offered to put me up if needs be.
It just depends how much space I need.
I suppose it all comes back to the question of whether it is possible to like someone too got-dang much? I didn't mean for it to happen, I already told you, it happened the first time I saw her!
But anyways, I keep digressing...
Let's take a look at part of this week's reading: -
‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Come, O breath, from the four winds! Breathe into these dead bodies so they may live again.’ Ezekiel 37:9 (NLT)
The command was issued for Ezekiel to speak to the valley of dry bones and, if he believed enough, they would come together and form a vast army.
Imagine that; the idea that God has a vast army ready to fight for you if you'll only but speak to the dry bones in your life!
Can I call out a dry set of bones in my life right now?
The fact that I've allowed my emotional heartbeat to go on life support, simply because I don't think it was fair of the young lady to say what she said (ED - but it was her decision, dude!) so soon and before I've even had a chance to...
NO! I'm not doing it anymore!
I'm risking b****ing about it and I won't do that because I like her more than I probably should, clearly!
So, in calling out said dry bones, I look at this passage of scripture and see that God is saying: -
'cry out to the winds, dude, cry out to the very winds that blow in all directions and command that they come upon your situation and go to work!'
Now, apologies for the usage of the word 'dude' in a context like this, but it's my way of showing the sort of relationship I have with my Heavenly Father; that we are so close a unit that when He speaks, I hear the shockwaves that follow after!
Why call out to the four winds though?
You know? I think it was a totalitarian movement, as in, I think it was done that way to show that God wanted to give Ezekiel a clear sign that every breath he felt from the wind, was available to the command of God to perform the will of God.
In other words, there was nowhere above ground and outside, that he could go where the winds could not reach him!
Some people have to see a manifestation to believe, but we are told that "blessed are those that have not seen and believed" in John 20:29!
Final Thought
So there you have it then, there is nowhere that you can go to escape God's blessing and nowhere you can go where He cannot speak to you from.
Whether I stay or go for the time being, can I just share with you one more song that again should give you an idea of what I'm feeling right now?
I kind of feel stuck though, because didn't I just say that !Audacious is where I belong?
I'm going to look at that word in some detail at some point real soon as I work through this because she doesn't deserve me to be a complete a$$ when next I approach her, which I hope to God I do have the confidence for.
In spite of the knockback, will I keep on coming back?
I cannot answer that just yet... but I do know that #herecomestrouble is brewing!
Watch the skies!
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